Brown PreMed

<p>Anyone know where Brown premed ranks/ if there is a matriculation list because I can’t find one.</p>

<p>You know that matriculation rates have little to do with the # of kids who say they are premeds as entering freshmen, right? </p>

<p>Tons get washed out b/c they cant’ get that A in Chem or some other course. Tons get lured into other fields.</p>

<p>Rest assured that if you’re admitted to a school of caliber as Brown, and YOU decide to stay on the pre med track, you’ll likely be admitted to a med school.</p>

<p>The real question isn’t whether or not Brown prepares med school applicants. The real question is will you get into Brown?</p>

<p>To me, choosing whether or not to apply to a top 20 college based on something as spurious as med school matriculation rate is a seriously flawed method of choosing a college.</p>

<p>Well how good a pre med program prepares you will be a big factor in how strong of an applicant you are to med schools…still would like my questions answered if someone knows.</p>

<p>jtarps: I’m saying that Brown and similar top ranked schools may automatically have higher med school matriculation rates because even to be at Brown, the students have passed rigorous examination. </p>

<p>Also, schools may pare down whom they “support” as applying to med schools. Thus they can artificially skew upwards their matriculation rates. No one cares to track how many incoming freshmen are “pre-med” versus the # of successful med school applicants 4 years later – it would be too shocking to see and scare many people away.</p>

<p>That being said, Brown isn’t considered a top school because it is poor at preparing students for post-grad work, Med included.</p>

<p>I don’t have the data you want but again, caution you to the inherent flaws in such data. Good luck to you</p>

<p>Oh I see what your saying that makes sense. But what do you think of an overall program ranking</p>

<p>Brown is as good as any other:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/1284648-brown-best-place-pre-med.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/brown-university/1284648-brown-best-place-pre-med.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The pre-med pre-rec’s are the same as other top 20 universities. The grading system at Brown is great for pre meds.<br>
An above average student at Princeton or JHU will have a 3.3 GPA and will have more trouble getting into med school than a below average Brown student with a 3.6 GPA. Brown is one of the few universities where you can have a GPA well below your class average and still be a strong pre-med candidate. Pre-meds are better off avoiding grade deflation universities and going to grade inflation universities.</p>

<p>What is grade inflation and deflation?</p>

<p>Debatable how “real” it is especially since everyone else seems to think their schools are deflated, but in terms of defining it: Grade inflation means that a disproportionally high number of good grades (i.e. As) are awarded while deflation would be the opposite. I would argue Brown is only “disproportionate” in that it doesn’t make its students fight for As by forcing a curve and capping As in the bulk of its classes. In other words, if you do A level work, you get an A regardless of how many other students are capable of doing A level work. There is also the fact that at Brown you aren’t forced to take distribution requirements so every class is a class you choose to be in, and there are no grades reported on the transcript below a C. I’ll grant this contributes to the higher average GPA but usually when people talk about Brown being inflated they really mean that the classes are less difficult which is not true.</p>

<p>So no curve like you get a 94 and it stays at that. I like it. But are you saying they only show C’s on your transcript and not other stuff</p>

<p>Oh wait your saying that your transcript will only have a’s and b’s on it. Doesn’t that mess with grad schools admission because they know that brown will do that</p>

<p>Your transcript will only have As, Bs, and Cs. It does not affect anything since Brown has been doing it since the 70s and everyone knows it.</p>